organic gardening

halo. my "screen" name is filipendula which is also called queen of the meadow and has the most bright neon-type pink coloured flowers in the early spring.

i am new to this wonderful site AND of course, new to this forum, but i would like to offer my services to anyone who is interested, to learn how to take care of your plants, inside your house and outside, without chemicals. this is called organic gardening and it and one other topic, which is xeniscaping, which is learning how to landscape with as little water as possible...if you live in a desert and/or area of america which is undergoing drought.

i not only have an allergy to certain chemicals, i also believe it's VERY VERY bad to use chemicals when it's not necessary....and you know what? it's NEVER necessary!!! there is ALWAYS a non-chemical method to take care of bugs...like aphids, whitefly, leafy mold, etc.; molds, mildews, etc.

even when you use chemical fertilisers on your grass...do you know where those chemicals go? they enter the soil and, eventually, after rain and/or snow, the leach out through the soil into the underground artesian well water....in some places, the water is closer to the root levels and can end up washing out into local brooks, creeks, streams...and even into larger bodies of water like lakes, rivers, and OCEANS!! is it so important to you to kill crabgrass and have greener grass that you're willing to poison water supplies and critters which live in those bodies of water?? sure, you're prolly thinking, "it's just me and i'm just one person," but multiply that by all the people in your neighbourhood and then by all the neighbourhoods in your town and then in your state...how much poison is that?

it's bad enough YOU are being poisoned by chemicals you think you have no control over...like monsanto's crossing genes to supposedly cut down on damage done by insects by putting the poison that kills those insects INTO the foods you EAT!!! like corn, potatoes, tomatoes, etc. and in america, most regretably, neither the people who sell seed and/or plants which contain these cross genes nor the grocers who sell the finished product...none of them have to tell you that you are, indeed, buying and/or eating products which contain chemicals which kill bugs....what do you think it'll do to YOU??

so, let's start at the beginning. let's start with learning how to control the bad things with good things...ok? and then, maybe, someday, we can all get together and change things. OK???? i'm ready...are you?